The Butler weekly times., 1887-02-09
THE CENTURY
For 1867.

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THE CENTURY is an illustrated maga.
zine, having a regular circulation of
about two hundred thousand copies, often
reaching sometimes exceeding two hun
dred and TWENTY-FIVE thousand. Chief
among its mary attractions for the COM
ing year is a serial which has been in ac-
tive preparation tor sixteen years. 1t is
history of our own country in its most
critical time, as set forth in
THE LIFE OF LINCOLN,
~ HIS CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES, JOHN
C. NICoLAi AND COL. JOHN HAY.
This great work, begun with the sanc-
ton OF President Lincoln, and continued
under the authority of his son, the Hon
Robert T. Lincoln, is the only full and
authoritative record OF the life OF Abra-
ham Lincoln. Its authors were friends
| of Lincoln before his presidency; the,
| we're most intimately associated with him
| as private secretaries throughout his
term of Office, and to them were trans
| tered upon Lincoln's death all his pri
| vate papers. Here will be told the inside
history OF the civil war and of President
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| the publication cf this work,
THE WAR SERIES,
| which has been followed with unflaggine
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| less space during the comiilr year. Get
tysburg will be described by Gen. Hunt
(Chiet OF the Union Artillery, General
Longstreet Gen. e. NJ. Law, and others
Ihickamanga oy Gen. D. H. Hill; Sher-
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toward and Slocum. Generals q. A.
:, >,,ilmore, w. F. Smith, John Gibbon,
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papers on the rood Question, with ref
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toms Religious Lite in the American
Colonies; Men and Women OF Queer
Anne's Reign, by Mrs. Oliphant; Clair.
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By the Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D., edito
OF the Christian Advocate; astronomica
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